GATHERING WELCOME SINGING TOGETHER GREETINGS PRAYER MESSAGE. Our Response BLESSING & SENDING

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1 October 8, 2017 GATHERING 9:00 AM 10:30 AM God Be Praised We Fall Down WELCOME Lisa Capozzoli Praise the Lord Sing Hallelujah And Can It Be One Faith, One Hope, One Lord Reformation Hymn SINGING TOGETHER Responsive Reading from Lift Up Your Hearts A Prayer of Confession and Assurance - Psalm 106 GREETINGS Gregg DeMey Open Up the Heavens Lay Me Down Preschool - 5th Grade children may go to Children s Worship Offertory Blessed Assurance PRAYER Lisa Capozzoli, Director of Care & Community MESSAGE Sola Fide - Faith Alone - Romans 3:21-31 Gregg DeMey, Lead Pastor Our Response BLESSING & SENDING Postlude What a Beautiful Name Spirit of the Living God This I Believe Our God Saves Worship Team - Jake Groenewold, Dina Zeilstra, Marve Wolterstorff, Doug Bardolph, Janice Crothers, Bethany DeHaan, Kyle Olson, Cindy Vos Sunday worship services are streamed live and archived for viewing on the web via LIVESTREAM (new.livestream.com/ecrc)

2 9:00 am Service Praise the Lord, Sing Hallelujah Praise the Lord, sing hallelujah Come, our great Redeemer praise I will sing the glorious praises Of my God through all my days Put no confidence in princes Nor on human help depend They shall die to dust returning All their thoughts and plans shall end Happy are the ones professing Jacob's God to be his aid They are blest whose hope of blessing On the Lord their God is stayed Heaven and earth the Lord created Seas and all that they contain He delivers from oppression Righteousness he will maintain Food he daily gives the hungry Sets the mourning prisoner free Raises those bowed down with anguish Makes the sightless eyes to see God our Saviour loves the righteous And the stranger he befriends Helps the orphan and the widow Judgment on the wicked sends Praise the Lord sing hallelujah Come, our great Redeemer praise I will sing the glorious praises Of my God through all my days Over all God reigns forever Through all ages he is King Unto him your God, O Zion Joyful hallelujahs sing And Can It Be And can it be that I should gain an interest in the Savior s blood Died he for me, who caused his pain--for me, who caused his bitter death Amazing love! How can it be that you, my Lord, should die for me Amazing love! How can it be that you, my Lord, should die for me

3 He left his Father s throne above--so free, so infinite his grace Emptied himself of all but love, and bled for Adam s helpless race What mercy this, immense and free, for, O my God, it found out me Long my imprisoned spirit lay fast bound in sin and nature s night Your sunrise turned that night to day; I woke--the dungeon flamed with light My chains fell off, your voice I knew; I rose, went out, and followed you No condemnation now I dread, for Christ, and all in him, is mine Alive in him, my living Head, and clothed in righteousness divine Bold I approach the eternal throne and claim the crown, through Christ, my own Responsive Reading from Psalm 106 Leader: Gracious God, we thank and praise you All: For you are good and your love endures forever Leader: Despite your goodness Both we and our ancestors have sinned All: We don't act justly or always do what is right Leader: The Lord is compassionate and gracious All: Slow to anger, abounding in love Leader: He will not always accuse All: Nor will he harbor his anger forever Leader: He does not treat us as our sins deserve All: Or repay us according to our iniquities Leader: For as high as the heavens are above the earth All: So great is his love for those who fear him Leader: As far as the east is from the west All: So far has he removed our transgressions from us Leader: Praise be to the Lord, the God of Israel From everlasting to everlasting Let all the people say: All: Amen! Praise the Lord! Reformation Hymn We will trust God's Word alone Where his perfect will is known Our traditions shift like sand While his Truth forever stands We will live by faith alone Clothed in merit not our own

4 All we claim is Jesus Christ And his finished sacrifice Glory be, glory be to God alone Through the church he redeemed and made his own He has freed us, he will keep us till we're safely home Glory be, glory be to God alone We are saved by grace alone Undeserved yet freely shown No accomplishment on earth Can achieve the second birth We will stand on Christ alone The unyielding Cornerstone Nations rage and devils roar Still he reigns forevermore Blessed Assurance Blessed assurance: Jesus is mine! Oh, what a foretaste of glory divine Heir of salvation, purchase of God, born of his Spirit, washed in his blood This is my story, this is my song, praising my Savior all the day long This is my story, this is my song, praising my Savior all the day long Perfect submission, perfect delight. Visions of rapture now burst on my sight Angels descending bring from above echoes of mercy, whispers of love Perfect submission: all is at rest, I in my Savior am happy and blest Watching and waiting, looking above, filled with his goodness, kept in his love 10:30 am Service Open Up the Heavens We ve waited for this day, we re gathered in your name, calling out to you Your glory like a fire, awakening desire, will burn our hearts with truth You re the reason we re here, you re the reason we re singing Open up the heavens, we want to see you, open up the floodgates The mighty river flowing from your heart, filling every part of our praise Your presence in this place, your glory on our face, we re looking to the sky Descending like a cloud, you re standing with us now, Lord, unveil our eyes Show us, show us your glory, show us, show us your power Show us, show us your glory, Lord (2X) Lay Me Down With this heart open wide From the depths from the heights

5 I will bring a sacrifice With these hands lifted high Hear my song, hear my cry I will bring a sacrifice, I will bring a sacrifice I lay me down, I'm not my own, I belong to you alone Lay me down, lay me down Oh hand on my heart, this much is true, there's no life apart from you Lay me down, lay me down Letting go of my pride, giving up all my rights Take this life and let it shine (2X) Oh lay me down, lay me down Lay me down It will be my joy to say, your will, your way (2X) Responsive Reading from Psalm 106 Leader: Gracious God, we thank and praise you All: For you are good and your love endures forever Leader: Despite your goodness Both we and our ancestors have sinned All: We don't act justly or always do what is right Leader: The Lord is compassionate and gracious All: Slow to anger, abounding in love Leader: He will not always accuse All: Nor will he harbor his anger forever Leader: He does not treat us as our sins deserve All: Or repay us according to our iniquities Leader: For as high as the heavens are above the earth All: So great is his love for those who fear him Leader: As far as the east is from the west All: So far has he removed our transgressions from us Leader: Praise be to the Lord, the God of Israel From everlasting to everlasting Let all the people say: All: Amen! Praise the Lord!

6 What a Beautiful Name You were the Word at the beginning, one with God, the Lord most High Your hidden glory in creation, now revealed in you, our Christ What a beautiful Name it is, what a beautiful Name it is What a beautiful Name it is, the Name of Jesus You didn t want heaven without us, so Jesus, you brought heaven down My sin was great, your love was great, what could separate us now Death could not hold you, the veil tore before you You silenced the boast of sin and grace The heavens are roaring, the praise of your glory For you are raised to life again You have no rival, you have no equal, now and forever God you reign Yours is the Kingdom, yours is the glory, yours is the name above all names What a powerful Name it is, what a powerful Name it is The name of Jesus Christ, my King What a powerful Name it is, nothing can stand against it What a power Name it is, the Name of Jesus You have no rival, you have no equal, now and forever, God you reign Yours is the Kingdom, yours is the glory, yours is the Name above all names Spirit of the Living God We only want to hear your voice, we're hanging on every word We want to know you more and more, we're hanging on every word Come and speak to us O Lord 'Cause when you speak and when you move When you do what only you can do It changes us It changes what we see and what we seek When you come in the room When you do what only you can do It changes us It changes what we see and what we seek You're changing everything We're leaning in to all you are, everything else can wait Come now and breathe upon our hearts, come now and have your way

7 When you move you move all our fears When you move you move us to tears (2X) When you fall we fall on our knees When you fall we fall at your feet And when you fall we fall on our knees And when you fall we fall at your feet Our God Saves In the name of the Father, in the name of the Son In the name of the Spirit, Lord we come We re gathered together to lift up your name To call on our Savior, to fall on your grace Hear the joyful sound of our offering As your saints bow down, as your people sing We will rise with you, lifted on your wings And the world will see that Our God saves, our God saves There is hope in your name